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  1. A shoot-off from the thread on Coalition for Responsible Home Education... Senator Osmond in Utah plans to reform education in that state next term. Read his plans here. This results in a lessening of requirements for private and home schools. Read the CHRE's response here. And what does HSLDA have to say about it? http://www.hslda.org/cms/?q=bill/senate-bill-39-homeschool-amendments
  2. For those interested, both of these sites have updated their FAQ pages recently: Homeschooling's Invisible Children FAQ Coalition for Responsible Home Education's FAQ I also heard that CRHE's Policy Recommendations have been edited. I haven't taken the time to look it over myself, yet.
  3. Certified Nursing Assistant training is very short--less than a semester in our state. You can become a nurse in 2 years at a technical school. One of my friends went to tech school for a radiology tech certification--I'm not sure of the time frame. There are probably other interesting medical occupations that will be in demand in the future, but I'm not up on those. For the more adventurous, there is Emergency Medical Technician, once again, less than a semester, though you can go for more training. The down side is that in small communities, the ambulance crew is not paid much, if at all. ETA: I know a homeschool graduate who is doing home-care for senior citizens through a business. No outside training required. http://www.homeinstead.com/pages/home.aspx
  4. I don't see anything online that states she was homeschooled before the kidnapping. She was included on the site because her captors used the word "homeschool" as a cover. "'He told me to say I had been home schooled and that we traveled around ministering to different people,' Elizabeth reported during later testimony," http://hsinvisiblechildren.org/2013/11/26/elizabeth-smart/ From http://hsinvisiblechildren.org/frequently-asked-questions/: Why did you start the Homeschooling’s Invisible Children Database? Heather Doney and Rachel Coleman, both former homeschool students who have spent time studying homeschooling at a graduate level, became interested in the ways homeschooling can be used to conceal child maltreatment and allow it to continue unimpeded. They began collecting cases of severe abuse and neglect in homeschool settings and soon felt the need for a way to organize and present these cases. They were inspired to found Homeschooling’s Invisible Children by Pound Pup Legacy, an organization that works to raise awareness of problems in the adoption and foster care systems. What is your criteria for including a child in the HIC database? We include all school aged children (ages 5 to 17) who were the victims of severe or fatal abuse or neglect who were legally homeschooled or whose parents, guardians, or captors claimed to be homeschooling them at the time an incident occurred. Why do you include murdered children whose deaths don’t look like they have anything to do with homeschooling, such as the Moore children or the Yates children? We include every child abuse or neglect death of a homeschooled child regardless of how this death took place. Our hope is to create a comprehensive database of homeschooling fatalities in an effort to locate themes and work toward solutions. In order to effectively analyze the data, we must include all the cases. Why do you include abducted children whose captors falsely claimed to be homeschooling them? Homeschooling has on numerous been used by kidnappers to help hide their abductions. By claiming to homeschool, abductors do not have to face the choice between enrolling a kidnapped child in school and worrying that someone will notice a child not in school and report them as truant.
  5. I will also be looking more closely at Life of Fred. Great suggestions, everyone!
  6. Janet, I finally took time to look at these. ETA one question which I didn't find answered in looking over the sites: Do you have to be in the classes at specific times? Very nice! Thanks for your help. These are definitely options we will consider.
  7. Maybe there is a misunderstanding of the purpose of the HSing's Invisible Children site. Their stated mission: The mission of Homeschooling’s Invisible Children is to raise awareness of the horrific abuse and neglect that can take place when unfit caregivers use homeschooling as a cover for criminal child maltreatment (emphasis Colleen's). As I understand it, the portion I underlined would include kidnappers who tell people, "We're homeschooling." The kidnappers use the term, homeschool, to allay any suspicion and the possibility of reports of truancy. They are trying to research how the label, "homeschooling," has been used to hide abuse. So they are including in their database abnormal cases, like kidnappings, not just cases in which children were actually being home-educated. How regulation would have helped the girls in these kidnapping cases--good question, Harriet Vane.
  8. Tracy, what is your concern about the Yates family being included on the Invisible Children site? I'm not very familiar with the case, so I don't immediately see a discrepancy in including it on a site that lists children who were harmed while adults claimed to be homeschooling.
  9. Quoting myself for La Texican b/c this is where I tried to express what I personally am not interested in. If someone else wants to discuss the "data issue" on this thread, go ahead. I have nothing more to say about it.
  10. Sorry I wasn't clear. I'm not interested in arguing whether or not the CRHE should be crying out for data. I think you may be splitting hairs in your complaints about what they say about data, or you may be right. I don't have anything to say about your concerns about the data, but they might be able to answer your concerns. That's all I meant. I never said I wasn't interested in discussing the legislative part...? Again, sorry for the misunderstanding, La Texican. You have added lots of valuable thoughts to this discussion, imho.
  11. You have to make them OR shop resale/thrift stores. Sometimes craft fairs or farmer's markets will have similar clothing items...
  12. Yes, patience, patience, patience! He will grow and change! Patiently instruct and correct him--you won't see immediate results in every area, but with time, eventually he will learn.
  13. I second the ideas of reading worthy literature aloud and physical activities--nature walks, trampoline, etc. School needs to be much more than academics, especially in the early years. You are building a relationship with your son. Base it on love. :)
  14. Dialectica, I first heard of them when La Texican posted a quotation and a link in message 355 above. I looked around the sites a little, main site here and their blog here, where they post articles that include research on home schools. I see articles about tetanus vaccinations in Oklahoma homeschool families, homeschooling in Spain, home-schooled children are thinner, gender/religion/homeschool... Part of what they say about themselves: The International Center for Home Education Research was founded in 2012 by a group of international scholars with more than 70 years of combined experience studying homeschooling. What sets ICHER apart from most national and international homeschool organizations is that we are not an advocacy group. As longtime observers of home education across a variety of contexts, we have great appreciation for homeschooling’s value and importance, but our purpose is not to promote home education or argue for its superiority over other forms of schooling.
  15. I have lots of ideas for keeping our one son happy and healthy... I wrote a few paragraphs about it here not too long ago.
  16. Lea, both your sons are in agreement with this? I think it's great that you've all learned what you've learned, and I hope it goes well with you back at home again. Just keep working on those changes you wanted to make. And love each other. None of us are perfect, but home is about relationship and love; with those and God's grace, you can accomplish much.
  17. I live between Organic Valley headquarters and these Amish farmers prosecuted for selling raw milk, so I don't care what stereotypes I fit! In case you're wondering what Organic Valley has to do with fashion, we see a lot of styles like this: I kinda like the hippie-look, truth-be-told, but I'm over 50, so I'm not really up to revamping my entire wardrobe.
  18. http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/494059-recommendations-for-vehicles-that-seat-8-irl-not-just-say-they-do/?hl=%2Bchevy+%2Bastro&do=findComment&comment=5298431 http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/498382-vehicles-for-6-kids/?hl=%2Bchevy+%2Bastro&do=findComment&comment=5375093
  19. We used MMM levels K-6 for all six of our children (except our oldest "guinea pig" who endured BJU for K and a year of Saxon in 4th grade). It worked for each of them, and I believe my six represent quite a spectrum as far as math ability. What's also important is that both teacher and student enjoyed it most of the time. I feel confident that it got them off to a good start. We tried the algebra text (Principles from Patterns) with our "guinea pig." but neither of us got it. It might work for some, but what I remember is that the text tried to teach how to use manipulatives (or was it graph paper?) to represent the quadratic formula before my student understood beans about the basics of algebra... Just didn't seem right to me. We went on to Jacobs Elementary Algebra and Geometry, then the Lial books after that. If you are concerned that it isn't rigorous, you can certainly take your child through it as fast as he can learn it, then start algebra early. We found that most of my kids didn't need as much practice as was provided, especially in levels 5 & 6, in which the same skills are repeated with larger numbers and more difficult fraction problems in level 6.
  20. Started a spin-off thread about a House Joint Resolution in Virginia, "Requesting the Department of Education to study the religious exemption to compulsory school attendance."
  21. The text: http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+HJ92+pdf A petition for the resolution: https://www.change.org/petitions/virginia-legislature-rules-committee-support-homeschooled-children-by-passing-house-joint-resolution-no-92 Opposition to the resolution: http://www.hslda.org/cms/?q=bill/house-joint-resolution-92-requesting-education-department-study-religious-exemption-compulsory An article in support of the resolution: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/nolongerquivering/2014/01/virginias-proposed-house-joint-resolution-92/ There isn't much on the web about this besides those sites. Has anyone in VA heard of it?
  22. Are you aware of Homeschooling's Invisible Children, affiliated with CRHE, in which they list documented cases of abuse by homeschoolers? Honestly, though, I'm a little puzzled about why you are so worked up about the data issue, La Texican. I'm not really interested in this aspect of the discussion, so I have nothing else to say about it. If you think you have a valid point, maybe you should... oh, wait--I've already suggested that to you twice. ;)
  23. Ok, CRHE is already involved with ICHER--"The International Center for Home Education Research (ICHER) exists to provide expert information and analysis regarding homeschooling research and to facilitate networking among researchers studying home-based learning. While CRHE is not affiliated with ICHER, some of our researchers have worked with their researchers, and we highly approve of their data-collection efforts on homeschooling laws."
  24. Wow--the International Center for Home Education Research--sounds like a worthwhile pursuit. Thanks for finding it and sharing, La Texican! From their "About" page: As longtime observers of home education across a variety of contexts, we have great appreciation for homeschooling’s value and importance, but our purpose is not to promote home education or argue for its superiority over other forms of schooling. Instead, our goals are threefold: to provide nonpartisan information about homeschooling to media outlets and the public to offer detailed analyses of emerging research on home education to encourage networking and collaboration among scholars
  25. Graduated 1979. Considering that I was #2 in my high school class (small town) with straight A's except for phy ed and one English class in which I "wasn't working up to my potential," I think I should've been prepared for college a whole lot better. I think I had 2 science courses--biology and geology? And for math, only 3 courses, I think. I took as many language arts and fine arts as I could, but there were no AP classes offered. I did have 2 years of Latin!!! Then the teacher retired... College didn't help much because, again, I took language arts courses. I was able to get an Associate of Arts without much math or science. Well, the math and science I did take have helped me as a homeschool parent, I can honestly say. But more would've been better. ETA: In retrospect, I didn't realize at the time what a large effect my parents probably had on my high school education. Although they encouraged me in grade school to do as well as I could (I was a classic first-born and received straight A's--cried if I didn't!), they had no aspirations for education after high school at all. We didn't talk about anything related to education that I can remember. They supported me in my desire to go to college, but they didn't have a clue about how I should prepare for it.
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